Maryland (Rochelle Ritchie-CBS Baltimore) – A major gang bust is made inside Baltimore City’s jail system. It was a brazen scheme to smuggle drugs and cell phones into Baltimore jails. More than two dozen people face federal charges, including corrections officers, some of whom got pregnant by the same inmate. Rochelle Ritchie has more on the […]
April 29, 2013
Maryland (Gigi Barnett-CBS Baltimore) – Baltimore County police arrest one of their own. The disturbing charges against the officer include sexting an underage girl and handcuffing a naked woman to a patrol car. Gigi Barnett reports the officer is accused of doing this repeatedly. According to charging documents, detectives were able to link sexually explicit […]
April 26, 2013
Louisiana (Ramon Antonio Vargas-NOLA.com) – A panel of state appellate court judges voted 2-1 Wednesday to reverse an earlier decision upholding the dismissal of a New Orleans Police Department officer who fired his service weapon numerous times into his personal car while on duty. The main reason is one that by now is familiar for […]
April 26, 2013
New Mexico (Crystal Gutierrez-KRQE-TV) - A tribal police officer found himself on the other side of the law Wednesday night after a concerned mother called saying he was with her runaway underage daughter. Byron Abeyta, 22, is now facing contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge. Valencia County sheriff’s deputies arrested Abeyta Wednesday after […]
April 24, 2013
California (Dana Littlefield-UT San Diego) – A San Diego police detective who pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge was placed Monday on probation for five years and ordered to complete 25 days of public work service. Detective Jeffrey Blackford had faced possible jail time and other penalties as a result of his […]
April 24, 2013
California (Susan Shroder-UT San Diego) – A reserve Imperial County sheriff’s deputy faces federal charges that she smuggled three unauthorized immigrants in the trunk of her car as she drove through a Border Patrol checkpoint in uniform with her department-issued gun visible. Elizabeth Hernandez, 23, of El Centro, was charged Thursday with smuggling, the U.S. […]
April 14, 2013
Minnesota (Joy Powell-Star Tribune) – Jurors in Anoka County on Saturday convicted a Minneapolis police SWAT team leader of delivering a knockout punch that nearly killed another bar patron in Andover. Sgt. David R. Clifford, 48, will be sentenced May 29 for the assault on Brian Vander Lee, who fell and hit his head on […]
April 1, 2013
Arizona (The Gaslamp Post) – A Detention Officer with Cochise County was arrested and taken into custody this past Thursday evening after an FBI investigation turned up illegal drugs at his home. According to the Arizona Daily Star, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office received a tip about 31-year-old detention officer Mark Melgoza’s possible involvement with […]
March 31, 2013
Maryland (Mike Schuh-CBS Baltimore) – A 24-year-old Navy veteran is in intensive care after being shot by city police Thursday night. His family tells WJZ that he was testing out a shotgun after being the victim of a home invasion. Mike Schuh spoke exclusively to the man’s father. Police say officers responded to reports of […]
March 23, 2013
Kentucky (The Gaslamp Post) – A sheriff from Eastern Kentucky and his son have been arrested just days apart from each other, and surprisingly – on similar charges. According to Kentucky.com, Jeffrey Blackburn, 29, son of Floyd County Sheriff John K. Blackburn, was arrested Wednesday night in Prestonburg on charges of public intoxication. Jeffrey Blackburn’s […]
March 20, 2013
South Carolina (The Gaslamp Post) – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has suspended Chesterfield County Sheriff Sanford “Sam” Parker today after he was indicted by a Grand Jury amid allegations of misconduct. Sheriff Parker was named in six indictments where he is accused of showing preferential treatment to two inmates. According to WCCB-TV, Parker allegedly […]
March 18, 2013
Pennsylvania (The Gaslamp Post) – A federal prison guard who had been reportedly drinking heavily and arguing with his wife tried to use a handgun to remove his wedding ring last week. The two had been arguing over an alleged affair he had had several months prior, when the situation escalated. According to KYW-TV in […]
March 9, 2013
New Mexico (Larry Barker-KRQE-TV) – Sierra County stretches from the White Sands Missile Range in the east to the Gila Wilderness in the west. The 4,000 square miles of rugged southwestern New Mexico includes Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte Lake and Caballo Lake. But today, one thing Sierra County doesn’t include is its duly-elected sheriff, […]
March 9, 2013
Arizona (The Gaslamp Post) – A former Pima County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his part in a conspiracy to shake down drug dealers for money and drugs and then in turn sell them on the street. In all reality, everything he had stolen was planted by the FBI. Former […]
March 2, 2013
The United States (The Gaslamp Post) – Well it looks like those crazy, whack-job conspiracy theorists may not have been so crazy after all. This week it came out on Infowars that in addition to the several billion rounds of ammunition being purchased up by the Department of Homeland Security in recent months, they are […]
February 28, 2013
The United States (Robert Farago-Charleston Voice) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently raided one of our readers: a kitchen table FFL dealer who does everything—everything—by the book. He has, however, consistently criticized the ATF for its unconstitutional regulations and long history of extra-legal activities. This is his story. Update to follow, after he consults […]
February 27, 2013
Wisconsin (The Gaslamp Post) – A police lieutenant with the Mount Horeb Police Department had been ordered released from custody on a signature bond after being arrested and charged with repeated sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy whom he invited to live with him. Mount Horeb Police Lt. Dennis Jenks was released from custody this […]
February 23, 2013
Dating drug dealers, harassing ex-boyfriends with naked pictures, and pointing guns at pet dogs: these were just a few of the offences committed recently by serving FBI agents, according to internal documents. The United States (Raf Sanchez-The Telegraph) – Disciplinary files from the Bureau’s Office of Professional Responsibility record an extraordinary range of transgressions that […]
February 13, 2013
Mississippi (Suzi Parker-Take Part) – In Mississippi, if kindergarteners violate the dress code or act out in class, they may end up in the back of a police car. A story about one five-year-old particularly stands out. The little boy was required to wear black shoes to school. Because he didn’t have black shoes, his […]
February 13, 2013
Florida (The Gaslamp Post) – SWAT officers searching for a suspect busted into the home of an elderly couple and terrorized them for several hours. The heavily armed officers were searching for a suspect whom although was related to the couple, did not live there. Residents Carl Stark, 71, and his wife Juanita, 73, say […]
February 13, 2013
Georgia (The Gaslamp Post) – What began as an investigation into the activities of a local Atlanta area gang by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives turned out to yeild something much bigger than they had previously thought. Federal authorities arrested 10 local law enforcement officers from several different agencies Tuesday after they […]
February 9, 2013
Illinois (Dave Savini-CBS Chicago) – An Elmwood Park police sergeant has been accused of using his police powers to target women he could seduce, when he was supposed to be working. He also has been accused of targeting the men who are in those ladies’ lives. CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini spoke with three men […]
April 29, 2013
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